2018-06-08
Nine years for man who went on cocaine-fuelled rampage with machine gun
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: During the sentence, Chief Supt Sutton said Rafferty told his father-in-law in the weeks before his rampage that he had a gun, but this was disregarded as "nonsense". Judge Nolan said the headline sentence in the matter would have been 14 years, but he was reducing this to nine years taking into consideration Rafferty's guilty pleas and remorse.